Drug raid leads to multiple arrests

Specialty units of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were busy on Wednesday.

The Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Tactics and Rescue Unit, and officers of the Bancroft detachment executed a Search Warrant in the Municipality of Hastings Highlands.

As a result of the investigation, cocaine, cannabis marijuana, assorted pills, cash and drug trafficking equipment were seized at the scene.

Daniel Beach, 33, of Bancroft Ontario has been charged with: possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking – cocaine and failure to comply with probation order.

Lee Ann Parks, 33, of Bancroft Ontario has been charged with: possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking – cocaine and two counts of failure to comply with probation order.

Erika Anneliese Jean Olmstead, 24, of the Municipality of Hastings Highlands has been charged with: possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking – cocaine and possession property obtained by crime under $5,000.

Malcolm Leotaud, 22, of Scarborough Ontario has been charged with: possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking – cocaine, possession of a schedule II substance for the purpose of trafficking – under 3 kg, possession property obtained by crime under $5,000 and three counts of failure to comply with probation order.

Racquel Alli, 21, of Pickering Ontario was charged with: possession of a schedule II substance for the purpose of trafficking – under 3 kg, possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking – cocaine and possession property obtained by crime under $5,000.

Jevaughn Dion Gabriel Joseph, 22, of Scarborough Ontario was charged with: possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking – Cocaine, possession property obtained by crime under $5,000, failure to comply with recognizance and obstruct a peace officer.

Later in the same evening, officers of the Bancroft detachment of the OPP initiated a traffic stop in relation to a warrant being executed earlier in the day.

Jaime Card, 40, of the Municipality of Hastings Highlands was arrested and charged with: possession of a schedule I substance – cocaine, possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking – cocaine, and possession property obtained by crime under $5,000.

Beach, Parks, Leotaud, Alli, Joseph and Card were all held pending a bail hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice in Belleville on March 29.

Olmstead was released on a promise to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Bancroft on April 24, 2018.